What the archive costs
Every recipe here is written by a language model and illustrated by an image model. That costs something each time, and because the whole archive is built that way, we can add it up. The figures below are counted on the tokens and images the runs actually used, at the price in force when they ran.
- $0.60
- $0.050
- 12
- 87,352
Split by model
The text is cheap, the picture is not. That is why the steps stand apart: one blended figure would hide that most of the bill is an image.
| Step | Model | Calls | Usage | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wrote the recipe | anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 | 4 | 51,794 tokens | $0.312 |
| Made the picture | bfl/flux-2-pro | 4 | 4 images | $0.120 |
| Worked out the nutrition | anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 | 4 | 17,086 tokens | $0.119 |
| Planned recipes | anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 | 2 | 5,668 tokens | $0.028 |
| Set the collections | anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 | 4 | 6,114 tokens | $0.013 |
| Checked food safety | anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 | 4 | 6,690 tokens | $0.007 |
14 completed runs, total model time 8 min 23 sec. The amounts are in US dollars, which the models are billed in. Runs that failed are not listed here, but they are booked, and they cost something too.